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Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Assessments

This page last reviewed November 27, 2017

In accordance with Assembly Bill 8,
ARB annually performs and reports on an evaluation of the deployment of
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles and hydrogen fuel stations in the state of
California. ARB reports on this analysis every year in June, providing
recommendations for the California Energy Commission’s use in
developing grant programs for installation, upgrade, and operation of hydrogen fueling stations. ARB recommendations
address funding levels (up to $20 million annually), identification of
areas with greatest need for fueling infrastructure development, daily
fueling capacities of stations, and technical capabilities of stations,
including design features and standards requirements. In order to
identify the areas of greatest need for fueling infrastructure
development, ARB developed the California Hydrogen Infrastructure Tool
(CHIT). CHIT is a Geographical Information System-based tool developed
in the ArcGIS environment to assess the spatial distribution of the gap
between the coverage provided by existing and funded stations and the
potential first adopter market for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. This
page provides resources beyond the information available in ARB’s
annual published evaluations for understanding and exploring the
analysis completed by ARB through CHIT.

November 2017 Webinar of CHIT 2017 Release Updates

Map Viewer for June 2017 AB 8 Hydrogen Infrastructure Assessment

CARB is making available an updated web application that allows users to view a map
containing the locations of existing/funded stations included in analysis,
assessments of need for coverage and capacity, and identification of Priority
Areas as described in the 2017 Annual Evaluation of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
Deployment and Hydrogen Fuel Station Network Development. View the
interactive map of the results produced by CHIT. Please note that
use of the app may require the latest version of your internet browser.
Click here for a list of supported browsers.

Click here
to access the map viewer for the 2015 Analysis and GFO 15-605

Full CHIT 2017 Release Download Package

CARB is making available a download package that contains the CHIT 2017
Release analysis tool for use within ArcGIS 10.2 or later versions.
The package contains the ArcGIS CHIT 2017 toolbox, associated files required
to run the tools, an instruction manual, input data used for the
2017 June analysis, sample output from the same analysis, and a copy of
the June 2017 Annual Evaluation of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Deployment
and Hydrogen Fuel Station Network Development. With this download package
and appropriate access to ArcGIS and certain extensions, users will be
able to recreate the analyses performed by CARB in support of its
June 2017 Annual Evaluation and be able to perform their own exploratory
analyses using alternative input data sets, making changes to analysis
settings, and/or modifying the analysis algorithms. The CHIT 2017 Release
contains several updates that: 1) improve the user experience and simplify
re-creation of CARB's analysis, 2) incorporate consideration of simulated
traffic flow data, 3) incorporate auto manufacturer projections of vehicle
placement, 4) incorporate registered FCEV data, 5) estimate local need for
additional hydrogen fueling capacity, 6) re-tuning and updates of input
data, parameters, and calculation methods, and other improvements over the
2015 Release. Please note the full download package is 3 GB in size and
will require 5.3 GB of space when unpackaged on your computer system.
Click here to download.